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Midwest Enterovirus - What you need to know

From NBCNews.com

Midwest Enterovirus is a rare and usually mild virus that is sending kids in several Midwest cities to the hospital, worrying parents and doctors alike. No child has died and they’re all likely to get better, but state and federal health officials are taking the reports seriously. While no child has been reported to have died from EV-D68 and it does not seem to be causing an epidemic, or at least not yet. CDC monitoring systems have not picked up any national increase in respiratory disease. Most kids infected with EV-D68 will likely have mild cold-like symptoms and will get better on their own. Children with asthma are most at risk, just as they are from any respiratory virus.

As with any infectious disease, your best defense is to wash your hands. Sneezing and coughing both spread germs, but you’re not catching them from breathing the air, usually. Colds, flu and viruses like EV-D68 are spread when people touch a surface the virus had landed on, like a desk, and then touch their mouths, noses or eyes. Kids touch their own faces on the order of once a minute, says Dr. Charles Gerba, a germ expert at the University of Arizona. But a good handwashing with soap, or an alcohol-based hand sanitizer, removes most infectious germs. Wiping tables and desks with a disinfectant wipe, even just once a day, also reduces infection rates, Gerba says.